{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-08-13","city":"GRAND PRAIRIE","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2033-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-13","maker":"Airbus Helicopters","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620028","mode_s_code":"50775443","mode_s_hex":"A3FB23","model":"EC135T3","n_number":"N356AM","name":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"St Louis","damage":"DEST","date":"2015-03-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CEN15FA164","probable_cause":"The pilot's decision to land during unfavorable wind conditions, which resulted in a loss of control due to settling with power. Contributing to the accident were the lack of an adequate approach path due to numerous obstructions and the lack of available guidance regarding the helicopter's performance capabilities in the right quartering tailwind condition.","registration":"N356AM","state":"MO","summary":"Accident on March 7, 2015 at St Louis, MO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N356AM is an Airbus Helicopters EC135T3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation in Grand Prairie, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Airbus Helicopters INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued August 13, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2364 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N356AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eurocopter EC 130 B4 (serial 7006, cancelled January 31, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N356AM: Accident on March 7, 2015 at St Louis, MO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":8,"serial_number":"2364","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2701 N FORUM DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01571669","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N356AM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"750528927"}